Gregg RobertsonNov 3, 2023
The herbicides 2,4-D and dicamba have been around for a long time. Both have been go-to herbicides in the fight against weeds, both in production…
On Dec. 21, not three months after the start of the federal fiscal year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it had reached…
Fulfilling his promise to give Americans “an incredible Christmas gift,” President Trump signed a $1.5 trillion tax bill on Dec. 22. What this tax…
As I am writing this blog, the U.S. Senate is debating its version of a tax bill that could dramatically change the country, from…
In September 2014, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (PDA) received a call from a company near Reading, Pa. Employees had found a strange bug at…
Last month, I spent two days in Washington D.C. with about a hundred green industry company owners and state and national association staffers to…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a new I-9 form on July 17. With raids and inspections by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)…
Congress and President Trump seem to be in a race to rescind the Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) regulation issued by the Obama administration. The…
With all the talk in Washington about health care bills and the Russia investigation, it’s easy to lose sight of more mundane but nonetheless…
In late April, Congress passed an appropriations bill to fund the federal government through the federal fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. Contained in that…
A compromise bill to fund the federal government and avoid a government shutdown contains some relief for those companies that use the H-2B guest…
Like that macabre but disturbingly funny scene in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” the federal overtime rule is “not dead yet.” The new…
As the Trump Administration moves into its second month, it’s becoming clear that the administration’s policies are going to create labor shortages in the…
We are a few weeks into the Trump administration, and we're getting a glimpse of how this presidency might impact (or not) the landscape…
The pesticide applicator certification regulations the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been working on for well over a year, are now final and have…
A look at how the new administration could affect the landscape industry. Despite the predictions of pollsters and pundits to the contrary, Donald Trump upset…
Gregg RobertsonNov 10, 2023
Congress has one last chance to extend the H-2B returning-worker provisions in the waning days of this session of Congress. The returning-worker provision that was…
Despite the predictions of pollsters and pundits to the contrary, Donald Trump engineered a stunning upset of Hillary Clinton in this week’s presidential election. Not…
In my July Landscape Management blog post, I looked at where the two then-presumptive presidential candidates stood on immigration issues, specifically comprehensive immigration reform and…
There has been a quiet battle raging in state legislatures for the past several years, the outcome of which could affect landscape contractors. The battle…
Now that the two presumptive presidential candidates have been chosen, which candidate will be more likely to fix the broken immigration system and seasonal…
The federal Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor (DOL) announced that new regulations governing overtime will go into effect on Dec. 1.…
H-2B Workforce Coalition and our national associations, AmericanHort and the National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP), are calling for a fly-in to Washington D.C. May…
In March, both houses of the Maryland legislature passed a bill to ban consumer use of neonicotinoids (neonics). As of this writing, the bill sits…
